Felipe Cobos has lived in the U.S. for nearly two decades, but has spent the last four months being detained at the Eloy Detention Center in Eloy, Arizona. His 17-year-old daughter Ana tried to rally people on Facebook to come to his hearing on January 2, in the hopes...

Plenty of Americans will be finding pleasant surprises when opening their energy bills this winter, as crude oil prices continue to fall and cause both heating oil and propane costs to decrease as well. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook report,...

In September 2014, Charles Severance, 54, was charged with the murder of three well-known residents in Alexandria, Virginia over a 10-year period. Previously known for his unsuccessful political campaigns, which were characterized by his odd behavior at political forums, Severance’s case has already drawn significant attention after he was...

At the end of October, The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its Fiscal Year Work Plan outlining new and ongoing activities that the department will pursue in 2015. The OIG primarily exists to monitor and audit spending and practices...

One World Trade Center, the building that now stands tall in the void left after the 9/11 attacks, was intended to be one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the tallest. According to a December 9 Grist report, the Freedom Tower’s construction plan...

Tragedy struck on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 3, when a fire in a senior living community in Winchester, MA left one person dead. An unnamed victim, identified by police only as “a woman in her 60s,” suffered burns during an apartment fire. She was taken to Massachusetts General...

Off the side of I-20 in Birmingham, AL, a simple white billboard greets drivers with a highly inflammatory statement: “Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.” And when outdoor advertisements like car wraps and billboards can be viewed as many as 30,000 to 70,000 people in just a day,...

As if White House officials didn’t have enough to worry about, with so many fence-jumpers and intruders turning the phrase “White House Secret Service” into little more than a punch line on Saturday Night Live, it appears that the virtual security of the White House may be at a...

As coastal cities across the globe are beginning to see the effects of rising sea levels, a race to find a solution to keep cities from drowning is underway. It was just two years ago that Hurricane Sandy overtook the eastern coast of the United States, slamming cities up...

With the drought that has plagued the state of California for the last few years showing no signs of improvement, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has issued an executive order that will require the city to cut fresh water usage by 20% by the year 2017. No restrictions were placed...